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6. Tonight, have your door open
… ago the young master ... came to the estate and I made his food for him and about 1 month afterwards Mr. Ramart came … my house and used very bad language…
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the ‘Colour-bar’
… author of the two - man play "The Blood knot" and his co-actor Zakes Mokae, 27, from Johannesburg arrived in … West End following "Singpost to Murder" by…
Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
… Indian Congress and the Natal Indian Congress, to work together for an end to the denial of rights by the Apartheid state. …
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
… the attack on the army headquarters was in response to the apartheid government deploying troops in the townships to … a time when most children would be at…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress On The Occasion Of the 105th Anniversary of the African National Congress Presented By President Jacob Zuma
… 8 January 2017, Orlando, Soweto His Excellency President Brahim Ghali, President of the … is the result of the dedication, sacrifice and hard work of…
Chapter 7 - CONCLUSION
… he was however not in a position to effectively execute his responsibilities as the general secretary between at … to new heights, but the Party was soon to…
EventPretoria disputes compensation for Gaborone raid
… talks between minister of Foreign Affairs Pik Botha and his Botswana counterpart Gaositwe Chiepe. The government of … R25 million. A week earlier, during the…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… to us by the Communist Party . Arthur Goldreich , with his wife Hazel and two young children Nicholas and Paul, were … possibilities of support for an armed…
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
… implemented, stevedores in Cape Town and Durban stopped work and demanded a minimum wage equal to the PDL. 1973 Early … pamphlets warning workers that…
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
… Jacob van der Heiden, a political prisoner, spent part of his confinement in April-May 1706 in a dungeon in the Castle … "murderer and incendiary". This…
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
… leaders and political activists held in the prisons of apartheid - men, women and these days, even children, who … fathers of our continental organisation…
Document 45 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Left Opposition to Cape Town comrades, 23 October 1932
… third lnternational only. As concerns these questions the American League has published sufficient material which must …
EventThe Berlin Airlift comes to an end
… of supplies during the 406 days of the airlift. Some 441 American aircraft were used in total and they carried over …
PlaceGroote Kerk, Pretoria
… story of our country especially with regards to the Apartheid era. As “Moederkerk” of the Dutch Reformed … PEN Ministries, who was very much involved in…
Propaganda and the Pursuit of Hegemonic Goals – The Myanmar and Zimbabwe Experience by Thabo Mbeki, 29 February 2016
… Government had executed Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his Ogoni colleagues. He then immediately joined others … that he should allow the tribunal to complete…
Archive2005 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2005
… now done. Chief Justice Chaskalson has convinced me that his own determination to continue to contribute to the birth … delegation that braved the threats…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Second Joint Sitting of the Third Democratic Parliament Cape Town: February 11 2005
… now done. Chief Justice Chaskalson has convinced me that his own determination to continue to contribute to the birth … delegation that braved the threats…
ArchiveKumkani Sabata
… on yellow, photo Kumkani Sabata; text: Kumkani Sabata; His fight against apartheid and bantustans continues …
EventBheki Mlangeni, ANC human rights lawyer of Soweto, is killed by a walkman bomb meant for Dirk Coetzee.
… at Vlakplaas . The unit carried out assassinations of anti-apartheid activists. Coetzee himself was the first commander … exposed the existence of the unit…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) to South African parents. His parents moved back to South Africa and settled in Port … and French ancestry, was classified as…
Address by Executive Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, to Corporate Council on Africa’s “Attracting Capital to Africa” Summit, 19-22 April 1997; Chantilly Virgiana, USA
… would have found it within themselves to end the system of apartheid peacefully, to queue one after the other, black and … which teaches us, as Africans,…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent…
PlaceNyanga Township
… in the rural areas, so they had to come to the cities to work for cash to pay the government taxes. People moved … wish to remain there. Student protests in…
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
… in Natal2 which attempted to situate Mafika Pascal Gwala’s work in the late 1980s would be appropriate in marking his legacy. The more I re-read what I had…
EventBhekisani Manyoni, artist, is born in Greytown
… Greytown, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He later moved with his family to the Dundee area, near Rorke's Drift, where he … Drift Art School. After attending…
EventSir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor and founder of tropical medicine is born
… causes elephantiasis. These observations, made during his time as medical officer for the Chinese Imperial Maritime … of plasmodium, a parasite which causes…
EventSir Percy Fitzpatrick, author of ‘Jock of the Bushveld’, is born
… as a Supreme Court judge in the Cape Colony and following his death Percy Fitzpatrick travelled to the Eastern … Transvaal, where he worked as a journalist…
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… On his journey to South Africa in 1893, Mohandas Gandhi had … of the discrimination faced by people of colour. His response to this was the establishment of…
EventFriedrich Engels, German philosopher, dies in London
… industrialist, he was sent to England to help manage his father's cotton factory. Upon his arrival in Manchester Engels was stunned by the high … Marx in…
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… the 'father of South African geneaology' and began writing his significant three volume genealogical register called … in 1882. De Villiers died on 4…